Jonathan Becker is executive vice president, vice president for academic affairs, and professor of political studies at Bard College and vice chancellor of the Open Society University Network. He has overseen Bard's international dual-degree partnerships with St. Petersburg State University at Smolny College in Russia, with Al-Quds University at Al-Quds-Bard College for Arts and Sciences in Palestine, and with the American University of Central Asia as a part of the AUCA-Bard Partnership in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, where in academic years 2018–2019 and 2021–2022, he served as interim president. He has written extensively on international educational partnerships, liberal arts and sciences education, and the role of colleges and universities as civic actors. jbecker@bard.edu

Felix Bender is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven. His work focuses on the political philosophy of refugeehood, migration, and democracy. In the past, he has worked at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and was a visiting scholar at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, the University of Amsterdam, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. felix.bender@kuleuven.be

John S. Dryzek is Centenary Professor of Political Science at the University of Canberra. He is coauthor of The Politics of the Anthropocene (2019); co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy (2018); and coauthor (with Ana Tanasoca) of Democratizing Global Justice: Deliberating Global Goals (2021). john.dryzek@canberra.edu.au

Eva Erman is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University. She works in the field of political philosophy, focusing on democratic theory and methodology. Erman is the author of The Practical Turn in Political Theory (2018), written with Niklas Möller, and Human Rights and Democracy: Discourse Theory and Global Rights Institutions (2005). She has also published numerous articles in scholarly journals such as British Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Political Philosophy, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, and European Journal of International Relations. She is the founder and chief editor of the journal Ethics & Global Politics, established in 2008. eva.erman@statsvet.su.se

Terry Macdonald is an associate professor of international relations at the University of Melbourne, having previously held positions at Merton College, Oxford University, Australian National University, and Monash University. She is the author of Global Stakeholder Democracy: Power and Representation beyond Liberal States (2008) and co-editor of Global Political Justice (2013). She has also published in journals including European Journal of International Relations, Perspectives on Politics, International Theory, Political Studies, Democratization, and European Journal of International Law. She is currently working on a new book entitled “Global Political Legitimacy: A Normative Theory of Pluralist World Order.” terry.macdonald@unimelb.edu.au

Kate Macdonald is an associate professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne and an Australian Research Council future fellow, having held previous positions at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Australian National University, and Oxford University. Her work examines the legitimacy and effectiveness of social, environmental, and human rights governance processes in the global economy. She has published three books and over fifty articles and chapters on these topics, including recent articles in Review of International Political Economy, European Journal of International Relations, Philosophy & Public Affairs, International Theory, and Regulation & Governance. kmac@unimelb.edu.au

James Pattison is professor of politics at the University of Manchester. He is the author of The Alternatives to War: From Sanctions to Nonviolence (2018); The Morality of Private War: The Challenge of Private Military and Security Companies (2014); and Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect: Who Should Intervene? (2010). james.pattison@manchester.ac.uk

Ana Tanasoca is Discovery Early Career Research Fellow in Philosophy at Macquarie University. She is the author of Deliberation Naturalized: Improving Real Existing Deliberative Democracy (2020); The Ethics of Multiple Citizenship (2018); and coauthor (with John Dryzek) of Democratizing Global Justice: Deliberating Global Goals (2021). ana.tanasoca@mq.edu.au